Modern inconveniences, new technology at CES

If you’ve never been to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a review from Geekwire‘s Todd Bishop and this week’s guest Hanson Hosein.

As the director of the University of Washington’s Master of Communication in Digital Media program, Hosein describes it as the convention in Las Vegas as “first world problems.”

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“I used to be a war correspondent and a journalist in the Middle East,” Hosein says. Yet, when it was 7 in the morning and his sold-out hotel on the strip run out of hot water, he compared his cold-shower experience to being on assignment.

It wasn’t just the cold water. “It’s difficult because of the sheer magnitude,” Hosein says. “It’s just really hard to do thing that you take for granted.”

Now, the convention is over and it’s time to see what of the new technology will rise to the top and be on the forefront of minds of Seattle geeks.

“I think the in-vehicle technology we’re seeing is huge, because it’s beyond entertainment, it’s beyond the music and navigation that we’ve become so accustom to,” says Hosein. “We’re looking specifically at social media; social networking is coming to the car.”

If you’re driving in the car, says Hosein, and a Facebook friend is driving in front of you, it will say so on your windshield. Just try not to get into any accidents.

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